Dr. Strangelove
1964 · Stanley Kubrick
Kubrick's doomsday farce turns nuclear annihilation into the blackest, sharpest comedy ever filmed.
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1975 · Terry Gilliam
Coconuts, killer rabbits, and anarchic wit that rewrote what a comedy could get away with.
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1984 · Ivan Reitman
Deadpan science nerds versus the supernatural, and one perfect marshmallow apocalypse.
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1998 · Joel Coen
The Coens' shaggy L.A. noir gave slackerdom its patron saint in the Dude.
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1933 · Leo McCarey
The Marx Brothers declare war on logic and dignity in their anarchic 68-minute masterpiece.
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1974 · Mel Brooks
Brooks and Wilder's monster spoof is a loving, black-and-white miracle of comic timing.
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1974 · Mel Brooks
Brooks torches the Western and American racism with jokes no studio would greenlight today.
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1977 · Woody Allen
The romantic comedy that got neurotic and honest, splitting screens and breaking the fourth wall.
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1979 · Carl Reiner
Steve Martin's wide-eyed idiot odyssey is pure, joyful, brainless brilliance.
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1979 · Terry Jones
The Pythons' religious satire is sharper and funnier than its scandal ever suggested.
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1980 · Jim Abrahams
A relentless gag machine that still lands a joke every few seconds decades later.
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1980 · Harold Ramis
A country-club slob comedy held together by Murray, Dangerfield, and a dancing gopher.
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1984 · Rob Reiner
The mockumentary that goes to eleven and never stopped being quoted by real bands.
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1993 · Harold Ramis
Murray's time-loop misery becomes a sly meditation on decency disguised as a laugh riot.
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1999 · Mike Judge
Judge's cubicle satire nailed white-collar despair so well it became a workplace scripture.
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2004 · Adam McKay
Ferrell's clueless newsman turned quotable absurdity into an entire comic language.
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2007 · Greg Mottola
A profane, sweet ode to teenage friendship that launched a generation of comic stars.
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2007 · Edgar Wright
Wright's buddy-cop parody is edited like an action epic and twice as clever.
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2014 · Wes Anderson
Anderson's dollhouse caper is a confectionery marvel with real melancholy at its heart.
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